It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
PLINY THE ELDEROn a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Home is where the heart is.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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Chance is a second master.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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